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Woolavington, Sussex
East Lavington, formerly Woolavington, is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England. It is located six kilometres (4 miles) south of Petworth, west of the A285 road. West Lavington was formerly an exclave of Woolavington. The parish has a land area of 797 hectares (1968 acres). In the 2001 census 357 people lived in 87 households, of whom 129 were economically active. It includes the settlement of Upper Norwood. The parish is dominated by Seaford College, a private school which owns . The main school building, previously Lavington Park country house, is a Grade II* listed building. St Peter's parish church, also Grade II* listed, has become the school chapel. In July 1553, John Fowler, a courtier of Edward VI, was made Keeper of the Great Park of Petworth or "Woolavington" in Sussex. Mary I appointed another courtier, William Goring, as keeper. An Elizabethan manor house was built by Giles Garton, at "Woolavington" in ...
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United Kingdom Census 2011
A Census in the United Kingdom, census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Internet. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for the census in England and Wales, the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) is responsible for the census in Scotland, and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) is responsible for the census in Northern Ireland. The Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department formed in 2008 and which reports directly to Parliament. ONS is the UK Government's single largest statistical producer of independent statistics on the UK's economy and society, used to assist the planning and allocation of resources, policy-making and decision-making. ONS designs, manages and runs the census in England an ...
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Exclave
An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. An enclave can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to denote a territory that is only partly surrounded by another state. Enclaves that are not part of a larger territory are not exclaves, for example Lesotho (enclaved by South Africa), and San Marino and Vatican City (both enclaved by Italy) are enclaved sovereign states. An exclave is a portion of a state or district geographically separated from the main part, by some surrounding alien territory. Many exclaves are also enclaves, but an exclave surrounded by the territory of more than one state is not an enclave. The Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan is an example of an exclave that is not an enclave, as it borders Armenia, Iran, and Turkey. Semi-enclaves and semi-exclaves are areas that, except for possessing ...
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Maurice Howard
Maurice Howard (b. 16 June 1948) is a British art historian, and was Professor of History of Art at the University of Sussex until his retirement in 2016. Howard has a bachelor's degree in history from Christ's College, Cambridge, followed by MA and PhD degrees in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He was director of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2007 to 2010, and its president from 2010 to 2014. In 2016, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ... for services to higher education and architectural heritage. Major publications * ''The Buildings of Elizabethan and Jacobean England'' (Yale, 2007) * ''The Early Tudor Country House: Architecture and Politics, 1490–1550'' (George Philip: Lond ...
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William Goring (by 1500-54)
Sir William Goring (born before 1500, died 1554) was an English landowner, administrator, courtier and politician. He served in the Parliament of England in 1539 and 1547, representing Sussex. He also served as the chamberlain of the household of Queen Anne of Cleves from 1540 until 1546. Goring was a groom of the privy chamber to Edward VI, and was appointed the Keeper of Woolaving Great Park at East Lavington in Sussex in succession to another groom, John Fowler.John Burke & Bernard Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies'', p. 223. References 15th-century births 1554 deaths Knights Bachelor 16th-century English knights High sheriffs of Sussex English MPs 1539–1540 English MPs 1545–1547 English courtiers Court of Henry VIII Court of Edward VI William William is a masculine given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman Conquest, Norman conquest in 1066,All Thing ...
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Petworth House
Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed English country house, country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of the Manorialism, manor of Petworth. For centuries it was the southern home for the House of Percy, Percy family, Earl of Northumberland, earls of Northumberland. Petworth is famous for its extensive art collection made by the Northumberland and Seymour/Somerset families and George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), containing many works by his friend J. M. W. Turner. It also has an expansive Deer park (England), deer park, landscaped by Capability Brown, which contains a large herd of fallow deer. History Medieval Manor House The manor of Petworth first came into the possession of the Percy family as a ...
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Edward VI
Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and King of Ireland, Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because Edward never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1550–1553). Edward's reign was marked by many economic problems and social unrest that in 1549 erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive Rough Wooing, war with Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland and Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church of England into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who too ...
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John Fowler (by 1520 – C
John or Jack Fowler may refer to: People * John Fowler (by 1520 – c. 1575) (died c. 1575), MP * John Fowler (Catholic scholar) (1537–1578/9), Catholic scholar and printer * John Fowler (politician) (1756–1840), U.S. congressman from Kentucky * Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet (1817–1898), British railway engineer * John Fowler (agricultural engineer) (1826–1864), English pioneer in the use of steam engines for ploughing * Sir John Fowler (British Army officer) (1864–1939) * John Edgar Fowler (1866–1930), U.S. congressman from North Carolina * Jack Fowler (footballer, born 1899) (1899–1975), Plymouth Argyle, Swansea Town and Wales international footballer * Jack Fowler (footballer, born 1902) (1902–1979), English footballer with Bradford City and Torquay United * John Gordon Fowler (1905–1971), United States Air Force general * John Beresford Fowler (1906–1977), British interior designer * John Fowler (footballer, born 1933) (1933–1976), Scottish footballer with C ...
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Seaford College
Seaford College is an independent Mixed-sex education, co-educational boarding school, boarding and day school at East Lavington, south of Petworth, West Sussex, England. Founded in 1884, it is a member of the Headmasters Conference, Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The college is in Lavington Park, a Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the South Downs. The land is owned by a charitable trust and the site is run by the Board of Governors who are the trustees. The college is the inspiration for the Jennings (novel series), Jennings and Darbishire children's books, written by alumnus Anthony Buckeridge. History The College was founded at Corsica Hall, Seaford, East Sussex, Seaford on the East Sussex coast, in 1884 by Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel Frederick Savage (schoolmaster), Frederick Savage, who also served as headmaster from 1884 until 1920. In 1940, the College was disrupted by a government order requisitioning all boarding school premises in Seaford and ...
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West Lavington, West Sussex
West Lavington is a village and civil parish on the edge of Midhurst in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It contains a small private nursery school and the (now deconsecrated) church of St Mary Magdalene. Church The church was constructed for Henry Edward Manning who was at the time rector of Woolavington, now East Lavington, with West Lavington forming a detached portion of that parish until 1851. The churchyard contains the grave of Richard Cobden although he lived in the neighbouring parish of Heyshott. As a result of falling congregations and the church's poor condition, St Mary Magdalene church (a Grade II* listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...) was closed in September 2008 and the congregation transferred to neighbouring Cocki ...
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Chichester (UK Parliament Constituency)
Chichester is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency in West Sussex, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Jess Brown-Fuller, a Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat. History Chichester centres on the small medieval cathedral city by the South Downs National Park. It is one of the oldest constituencies in the UK, having been created when commoners were first called to the Model Parliament in 1295 as one of the original Parliamentary boroughs returning two members. The seat has sent one member since 1868, after the Reform Act 1867. In its various forms, Chichester was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative safe seat, stronghold from 1868 to 2024 (except for a brief period of 10 months in 1923-24 when it was held by the Liberal Party's Charles Rudkin), but at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 ge ...
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A285 Road
List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, s ... and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2). __FORCETOC__ Single- and double-digit roads Triple-digit roads Four-digit roads {{United Kingdom roads 2 2 ...
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Petworth
Petworth is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Chichester (district), Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the junction of the A272 road, A272 east–west road from Heathfield, East Sussex, Heathfield to Winchester and the A283 road, A283 Milford, Surrey, Milford to Shoreham-by-Sea road. The parish includes the settlements of Byworth and Hampers Green and covers an area of . to the south west of Petworth along the A285 road lies Chichester and the south-coast. In 2001 the population of the parish was 2,775 persons living in 1,200 households of whom 1,326 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population was 3,027. History The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 44 households (24 villagers, 11 smallholders and nine slaves) with woodland and land for ploughing and pigs and of meadows. At that time it was in the ancient Hundred (county division), hundred of Rotherbridge#The Hundred of Rotherbridge, ...
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